Lynn Warren The Hiking Club normally goes on two overnight trips each season and on Nov. 12, more than 40 hikers and non-hikers headed north to Sedona for three days of red rock hiking. On the first day, Julie Walmsley along with more than 40 friends celebrated her reaching 1,000 miles with the club. On the second…
Lynn Warren Hiking in the Superstitions seldom disappoints but having to cope with I-10 commuter traffic causes the hiking club to hike these iconic mountains less frequently than a few years ago. However, on Oct. 14, six PebbleCreek “B” hikers headed east to enjoy one of their favorite hikes, an 8.5-mile hike with roughly 2,200…
Pete Williams On a bright clear Oct. 9 day, ten hikers from the PebbleCreek Hiking Club wandered through a Joshua Tree Forest just north of Wickenburg. Our destination was a single Saguaro living among the Joshua trees. What’s fascinating is that Joshua trees live is the Mohave Desert while Saguaros live in the Sonoran Desert.…
Hikers visit Michelin Man II Lynn Warren One relatively rare type of crested saguaro is known as a jointed or segmented saguaro. On Oct 3, six PebbleCreek “B” hikers enjoyed a relatively flat 11.7-mile hike in the 136th St. section of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. The hike consisted of a combination of trails that provided…
Lynn Warren You may think they are crazy, but for the past several years several members of the hiking club have challenged the August heat in what has become an annual backpacking foray into the Grand Canyon. A popular misunderstanding is that the Grand Canyon is much cooler than our valley but down in the…
Pete Williams On Sept. 5, Lynn Warren surpassed 9,000 miles hiking with the PebbleCreek Hiking Club, only the second club member to do so. And he’s only been with the club for eight years, averaging more than 1,000 miles a year! Lynn participates in all the types of hikes we do—regular day hikes, exploratory hikes, out of…
Lynn Warren On Sunday, Sept. 8, a group of four “B” hikers headed for Flagstaff to hike Kendrick Peak, one of the highest peaks in northern Arizona, with an elevation of 10,413 feet. They followed that up on Monday with a hike to the summit of Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 feet. The weather…
Pete Williams Ten members of the PebbleCreek Hiking Club enjoyed an early hike in the nearby Estrella Mountain Regional Park on Aug. 31. While it does get very hot in the summer, the club compensates by hiking very early, as we started at 6 a.m., generally finishing by 10 a.m. Even so, summer hiking is not…
Lynn Warren How do hikers escape triple-digit temperatures in the valley? Well, one popular way is to head for higher elevation so on July 18, a combination of ten “B” and “C” hikers headed for West Clear Creek, a few miles southeast of Camp Verde. The “B” hike was a relatively easy ten miles RT…
Hikers enjoy a Saturday hike Lynn Warren Start your weekend with a hike and be home early! The club has been offering relatively easy, relatively short close-in hikes on Saturday mornings for the last year and turnout has been impressive, even during the summer. On a clear, sunny July 20, eleven hikers enjoyed a 6.8-mile…